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ECON 370
Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment
University of Phoenix
ECON 370: Environmnetal Economics
Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment
Introduction
This review will cover the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Battle Mountain District
Analysis for Pending Lease Application: NVN 074289 in the 2008 Final Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Geothermal Leasing in the Western United
States, Volume II: Analysis for Pending Lease Applications.
In 2001, Lillian Darrough, the owner of the nearby hot springs, Darroughs Hot Springs, with a
partnership with the Great American Energy, filled a noncompetitive lease application in. The
lease application site is for 160 acres within the Austin-Austin and Tonopah Ranger Districts
of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (NF) which is managed by the Forest Services (FS)
and falls within Nye County.
The NF lands is a portion of a total area of 440 acres of land needed for the future private
industry development of geothermal resources. Other lands include 160 acres of public lands
within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District overseen by the
BLM Tonopah Field Office, and 120 acres of private lands. Great American Energy
communicated
, that they would develop a 12-megawatt binary power plant on the private and public land since
the FS proposed lease land is within an Inventories Roadless Area (IRA).
Environmental Impacts
Land Use or Recreation Impact
Proposed lease would not have direct impact on land use or recreation. The lease site has a low
potential to contain vertebrate fossils or scientifically significant invertebrate or plant fossils,
and no paleontological resources. There are no designated recreation areas within or adjacent to
the proposed lease site. Future actions may have potential for insignificant long-term negative
impact on dispersed recreational uses. However, there are common dispersed recreational
activities throughout the NF that include hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, horseback riding,
bird and wildlife viewing, photography and pine nut collecting but there are no special land use
areas with or adjacent to lease area. There is also no risk of new road build within the proposed
lease area as it is an IRA. Future actions are in compliance with the Nye County General Plan,
and the BLM and FS land use regulations.
Geologic Resources and Seismicity
Proposed lease action does not have direct significant impacts on geological resources, or place
people or structures at risk from seismic events. Future development may have some long term,
negative impacts in relation to seismicity. However, development is not within lease area and
will have insignificant impact to the lease area. There is also a low risk of subsidence as used
geothermal fluid will be reinjected once used. Assuming future construction and operations on
adjacent sites are in compliance with building codes and state and local permits requirements,
there is a low impact and risk.
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